jordan fong is the first girl in san francisco to join boy scouts.the organization says it's workingusive.so girls like jordan.. who has been with the girls scouts for four years.. are switching over. jordan says.. seeing her older brother take part in the group's activities inspired her. jordan fong/one of first to join scouts bsawhat i saw there was really good archery. and rock-climbing and horse-riding which i really like. and what made me want to do it more was i thought all the activities that i would get to do in boyscouts. because i like to climb new stuff. it gets old and you remember it so much you are ahead of everyone, you want to do something more challenging. lei fong/ scout's mothershe was always kind of tagging along and she was inspired to see you know 700 boys all getting ready for their trek and i remember her saying, whoa i totally want to do that too. jordan's mother says she's proud of her daughter. and is excited for her. lei fong/ scout's mothershe's the one who wants to go on the longest hike, the most rugged, wilderness. and you know, i think, for me, i real

stone.... 8-year old jordan fong wants in on the action. the family spoke to kron 4's hermela aregawi. she joins us live from the newsroom with that story. hermela, what made her want to join? (hermela) her older brother is in boy scouts.. she says that definitely has something to do with it. she also tells me.. she wanted to challenge herself by trying something new. jordan fong is the first girl in san francisco to join boy scouts.the organization says it's working to be more inclusive.so girls like jordan.. who has been with the girls scouts for four years.. are switching over. jordan says.. seeing her older brother take part in the group's activities jordan fong/one of first to join scouts bsawhat i saw there was really good archery. and rock- climbing and horse-riding which i really like. and what made me want to do it more was i thought all the activities that i would get to do in boyscouts. because i like to climb new stuff. it gets old and you remember it so much you are ahead of everyone, you want to do something more challenging.

so president fong fong -- i'm sorry. is there public comment on the adoption of the minutes? okay. seeing none, president fong. >> aye. >> commissioner honda. >> aye. >> a commissioner wilson? >> vice president swig. >> yai yai. >> okay. that motion passes. minutes will be adopted. okay. we will now move on to item 5a, 5b, 5c, and 5d. these are four appeals. appeal number 18-017, 18-0818, 18-040, and 18-041. denny and perjalian versus department of building inspection. i believe one of the commissioners will be stepping in the back to recuse themselves, is that correct? okay. >> i have to recuse myself again. >> okay. thank you. we will take a moment. i will start reading the description. the subject property is 121 spear street. and for appeal 18-017, protesting the issuance on february 5, 2018, to google of an alteration permit on the second through fifth floors, new interconnecting stair and stair openings for tenant improvement project. application no. 2017-11/20/4399. april 18, 2018, the board voted 4-0-1. commissioner wilson recused, to continue this matter to allow time for

on that motion, president fong fong. >> aye. >> commissioner lazarus. >> aye. >> commissioner honda. >> aye. >> okay. that motion passes. and those two appeals are continued to may 9. thank you. >> let's take five minutes. >> >> clerk: good evening. we are resuming the april 25, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. up next on the agenda is item number six. this is appeal number 18-010, john paxton versus department of building inspection with planning department approval. the subject property is 330 presidio avenue, protesting the issuance on january 11, 2018 to 330 presid yo avenue, llc of an alteration permit, permission of two accessory dwelling unit on the first floor of an existing building perordinance 3015. seismic application is on dpa 201509046211. application 2016116829. note on march 21, 2018, the board voted 4-0-1, commissioner wilson absent to continue this appeal to allow time for the department to conduct site visit to verify existing conditions. so commissioner wilson, given that you were absent for the hearing on march 21, did you have an opportunity t

commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: yeah. i just wanted to say i won't support the current motion. i do support a continuance rather keep the project alive than definitely make it a vacant site for another year. and i think there's movement for additional height on this site, and i think the neighbors might take a little bit more height. i don't think we're talking in our minds about putting a huge number of units above. even if it were a few, a handful, a few would probably be better than none, so i'd like to keep this and give the project sponsor a very short amount of but enough time to at least explore the opportunity, and if it comes back no, that's a no and we try again, but i don't want to kill it. >> president hillis: director koppel? >> commissioner koppel: could you clarify the tifs between a continuance and intent fwo disapprove. if we were to motion and vote on an intent to disapprove, that still means that the project comes back, it doesn't mean it is going to get disapproved necessarily. could maybe just someone

commission fong aye, melgar >> alyssa . that motion passes. >> there is item one, 1863 mission street i'll continue that to the state date specified. >> this will place this on the consent calendar and the matter constitutes a consent calendar, considered with be routine by the planning commission and may be acted on in a separate roll call votement . the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. item 6, 378 arguello boulevard, i have no speaker cards. >> would anybody like to pull arguello off consent? seeing none, we can take up the item. >> commissioner moore: move to oppose. >> second. >> thank you, on that motion to approve item 6 under consent, fong aye, johnson aye, koppel aye, melgar aye. president aye. that motion passes unanimously. and places under commission matters, item 7, consideration of draft minutes for april 26, 2018. >> president hillis: any public comment on the draft minutes? seeing none, close public comment. >> move to approve. >>

jordan fong switched over after having been with the girl scouts for four years.ry. and rock-climbing and horse-riding which i really like. and what made me want to do it more was i thought all the activities that i would get to do in boyscouts.>( darya ) ( darya ) just last week ... the boy scouts officially changed their name to scouts bsa ... dropping boy from its name. ( darya ) ( darya ) now to bay area baseball... the giants looking to win their 4th straight game taking on the atlanta braves. in the top of the second pablo sandoval give the giants the lead with a single to left. the giants would put up two more runs in the 4th inning and hang on to win by a final of 4 to 3. it is their first series sweep of the season. the giants have now won 7 out of their last 8 games. they are now in philadelphia to take on the phillies. first pitch is this afternoon at 4:05. ( james ) and at the coliseum... andrew triggs on the hill for the oakland a's taking on the baltimore orioles. in the 4th inning... matt olson with a pop up ...and the ball slips out of craig gentry

on that motion, fong aye, johnson aye, moore aye. richards aye. president aye. that motion passes unanimous. 6-0. [applause] >> president hillis: thank you all, congratulations. >> clerk: item 15 for 2016-001738. 1140-1150 -- excuse me those persons exiting the chambers, please do so quietly, we have additional business to attend to. this is conditional use authorization. good afternoon, president hillis and members of the commission, doug vu, staff. it's a quick for conditional use authorization for demolition of existing 75,625 square foot industrial building and the new construction of a 6 to 7 story, 65 feet tall, and 427,936 mixed use building, containing 6427 square feet of ground floor retail sales through six units that would have accessory dwelling use and up to 361, 91 bedroom, and four three-bedroom units. the project includes a mid block public pedally connecting harrison and alan streets. 29,815 square feet of usable space. a basement for 170 off-street parking spaces. and also three car share spaces and two vehicle parking spaces. also the project

. >> commissioner fong. >> move to approve a 45 foot wide notch at 4 stories or floors. >> second. >> mr. winslow, that's four stories from the taller portion of the building, three stories -- we've got the plans -- >> may i approach? >> you're out of order. >> speak into the microphone. >> that's what we need to determine. what are we talking about here? this is the uppermost story on main street. the building has to step down another story at this point, the midpoint of the lot to make the height work for beale street. so where are we measuring the 4 story notch from? this portion, the uppermost floor, is the only portion that is in the notch zone. so are we measuring the four stories, one, two, three, four, or one, two, three, four? >> correct. >> bay crest is down here somewhere. >> we need to -- we will be getting drawings in and improving them. >> go to the overhead, the last diagram you showed. go to the overhead, the other one, the next one. from the bay crest courtyard. >> i've got it. >> i think it's clear. it shows three story notch from the taller -- >> mike mike. [ off mi

>> commissioner fong: my direction which she started with was to explore all opportunities and state density bonus, other types of uses and see what is the most plausible scenario. i don't know what that is, but my instruction could be to explore all those. >> commissioner melgar: thank you commissioner moore, i want to e ritte reiterate i was reade for denial but will go with what the commission says and will do so that the historic commission is important to me and it's part of the fabric of the community. i will go with a continu contind you changed my mind, but exploring the options that do not include the demolition of this important historic resource is what we are going for. >> commissioner moore: is that in support of director william providing us that the destruction would have to trigger an eir but adaptive resource would not. >> depending on the extent of the alterations it's very postpossible an eir would not be needed depending on how the plan might change. >> it's a full block, so housing may fit in this building and not require it's demolition, we don't know. we are ki

commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: thank you. [inaudible] >> commissioner fong: -- new business and job creation, so i'll make a motion to approve. >> second. >> president hillis: commissioner moore? >> commissioner moore: i just wanted to second what many already said. i think this is an incredible example for combining good legislation with innovative examples. i talked about this internationally. i heard it at the american planning association in new orleans. everybody would like to do what we do, but it takes a special breed of planning legislators, as well as an incredibly active and astute private sector to make something like that happen. i'm in strong support. i thank supervisor cohen for being really astute and ware, and in this case, we are supporting it for permanent, which is even better, and i'm at full support. thank you. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this amendment. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion pas

commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: i think this is going in the right direction. i think it's impossible to come up with a perfect plan after seven, eight years, but i think as the needs of the city grows, housing is an important piece, but so is workforce, and workforce will continue to draw population in san francisco and an economic benefit. as commissioner koppel mentioned, this is the right proximity. if we're going to do any kind of major push for office, this is the place. i share some concerns about displacement. i thought it was interesting, the one comment to try and get out in front of that a little bit. i'm not sure how to do that, but i just want to raise that because i think that's a viable point. about salmon and water, i don't know if you guys track salmon and water, but it's a significant water, and it's not down to san francisco's problem, and it's not down to central soma's problem, but it is california's problem, and it's a regional problem, and it's one we should pay attention to. it's whales, it's water temperature -- i've witnessed it person

if if you could please be in the room for cleveland speakers. >> my name is julie robert fong. i'm a parent at redding elementary. i have three things to squeeze in. >> this is -- i have your card. so this is just on redding. >> okay. we'll be called back for the other two? >> yes. >> thank you. that's great to hear. we're over 80% of families qualify for free and reduced will nolunch and we've had budg. our school has been -- is being renovated so we've been moved from tinder line to across the hill to russian hill which has been difficult for many families and it's destabilized our school and upset our enrollment. in the past, we've had -- we had to come out last year to advocate for cuts to be restored. we are, again, facing cut to our social worker to 50% time. even as we're going to be moving back to where many of our families are in transition and many of our families are also immigrants and refugees. some who had very difficult transitions to this country. so we also have dollar cuts from the mtsf supports. we also are experiencing dollar cuts that are going to result in

commissioner fun commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: the gabled roofs, while i think there are a number of them in a row, they're not necessarily sister houses, and so i don't see anything exceptional or extraordinary here, and move not to take d.r. and approve project. >> second. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, there's a motion that's been seconded to not take d.r. and approve the project as proposed. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 4-0. >> president hillis: all right. and that's the last item. the meeting is adjourned. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the

so susan solomon, alida fisher, julie robert fong, castro walker, c.m. bivens, come on up. terrence davis, betty hunter, susan fong wong, tiana cuman, and geraldine anderson. >> thank you, commissioners and superintendent. my name is alina fisher, and i am the chairman of the advisory for community education. as i've stated before, the c.a.c. board and our membership is in agreement that we have very serious concerns with charter schools that opt out of the governance and oversight structures put in place by our c.a.c. here in sfusd. we have found that charters who come into the schools and colocate impact our most marginalized students, our students with disabilities by displacing our intervention room and supports. so we would actually encourage the mary l. booker family who's here to consider joining the san francisco unified school district scpa and make yourself available to the families of sfusd and provide the same accountability and oversight and parent involvement and parent oversight that we do as sfusd schools do. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening. i'm susan

fong aye johnson aye koppel aye moore aye president aye. so moved, that motion passes unanimously. 6-0. case number 2017 -- 01058. conditional use authorization. 1443 nor yegga street. flashflush the subject property is developed with a three story building with commercial and upper floor residential. configuration is to improve. the department of public health found no reported complaints for the current operator for the subject location, but the planning department has no record of complaints. the department received one anonymous public comment in opposition of the proposal concerned that it will be bring prostitution to the area. the department is in general support of the project. the proposed is not for retail use, providing goods to the neighborhood. it would allow expanding services to the neighborhood and is consistent with the policies of the general plan. this concludes my presentation. >> president hillis: thank you. project sponsor. are they here? is the project sponsor here? no? so is there any public comment on this item? i t

commissioner fun commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: the gabled roofs, while i think there are a number of them in a row, they're not necessarily sister houses, and so i don't see anything exceptional or extraordinary here, and move not to take d.r. and approve project. >> second. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, there's a motion that's been seconded to not take d.r. and approve the project as proposed. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 4-0. >> president hillis: all right. and that's the last item. the meeting is adjourned. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a variety of other matters related to the physical urban environment planning projects include implementing code change or designing plaza or parks projects can be broad as proipd on overhead neighborhood planning effort

. >> president hillis: commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: well, thanks everyone for coming out. this is a complex one and i agree with some of the speakers that over time, we've created a very difficult position, whether it's formula re-taylor bmr minimums and not helped by the cost of construction and labor right now. just a little bit of -- as one speaker mentioned, this used to be ron greenspan's volkswagen service department there. generally, i am in favor of small business and support small business. i think san francisco has long been successful and the unique thing we like about san francisco are all the different small unique businesses. to me, the real question is are we doing enough on this site? and for folks in this room that aren't here for other hearings, i hope you can understand the pressures that san francisco has and that we receive here and the department receives for trying to build more housing on all different levels. and so are we doing enough with this site? is the developer doing enough with thi

commissioner fun commissioner fong? >> commissioner fong: the gabled roofs, while i think there are a number of them in a row, they're not necessarily sister houses, and so i don't see anything exceptional or extraordinary here, and move not to take d.r. and approve project. >> second. >> clerk: seeing nothing further, commissioners, there's a motion that's been seconded to not take d.r. and approve the project as proposed. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 4-0. >> president hillis: all right. and that's the last item. the meeting is adjourned. >> all right. so good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. you know, for the past four months, as mayor of the city of san francisco, i have from reside residents across our entire city up and down the ladder about the streets of san francisco. our streets are filled with trash and debris, and it is unacceptable, and i've said from day one the cleanliness of our streets is going to be one of my biggest p

jordan fong switched over after having been with the girl scouts for four years.ng her older brother take part in the boy scout activities inspired her. < because i like to climb new stuff. it gets old and you remember it so much you are ahead of everyone, you want to do something more challenging. for me, i really like that she's going to learn resilience. i don't know how to really teach that. you know, so i think that's something that she will learn.> ( james ) just last week ... the boy scouts officially changed their name to scouts bsa ... dropping boy from its name. ( darya ) coming up on the kron 4 morning buzz... the warriors are one win away from the western conference finals... and coach kerr is not a fan of his team's new nickname. plus... a woman turns an 18-dollar betr into more than one million dollars at the kentucky derby. ( darya ) after the break... an emergency landing for a jet blue flight... the reason the jet had to change course. ( anny ) and i am tracking your bay area forecast. no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from

70-year-old thao luu the father who was shot and killed in his san jose home sunday night fongy very rare. i've been a policeman for twenty plus years and i've never seen this type of violence in this type of community and i've never seen frankly in the twenty years i've been a cop like this.">his wife is in the hospital with life threathening injuriessan jose police say their 25-year-old son duong luu is one of the suspectsthe other 27 year old madison muongthe victim was a buddist and a thai chi instructor at the community center in his neighborhood devestated neighbors and students gathered at the crime scene embracing each other's broken hearts to remember and honor thao luu (will) that was kron4's gayle ong reportg. (will) a big story we're following this morning... a man was shot near the sun valley mall ... and the gunman is still on the loose. it happened on santa monica drive in pleasant hill yesterday. investigat